By Darrell Halen 

A Massachusetts man is accused of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old Salem girl and threatening to kill her if she told anyone about it.

Charles Shadle, 20, of 48 Jones Road, Revere, Mass., has been charged with aggravated felonious sexual assault.

Salem police were notified of the alleged assault by employees at a school, who learned of it through a friend of the girl, according to a police affidavit.

Shadle was temporarily living at the same residence as the girl when the alleged assault occurred on Sept. 30 but has since moved out, according to what police were told during their investigation.

Prior to Shadle’s Friday, Dec. 21, arrest, the girl told a child protective services worker that Shadle had assaulted her and that she was scared to tell anyone about it because he threatened to kill her if she did, according to the affidavit.

In addition to the assault charge, Shadle is charged with criminal threatening. He was ordered held on $100,000 cash bail.